1 Sitka Alaska May 5th 1881 Dear Mr. Muir Have just returned from our second trip to Chile at this season and I am very
glad to say that business prospects are better than we anticipated. We have given up on Iakatat? trip owning to the amount
of work we have to attend to this season besides we learn that the Iakatat? Indians are expected to come down to Cross Sound
to trade at our Hoonyah stove. The next steamer from Portland will bring boiler c for our oil works which we will establish
in Cross Sound. A Capt Almy has arrived here from Newport R.I. to illegible the same. We have now six stores in operation
the east one established is at the new town of Harrisburg or Rockwell in the Auk country about 8 miles below the Auk Glacier
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